I'm Tate. TerraByte is me: one engineer building the AI and automation that keep small businesses running.
I got into this through websites. I've built 25-plus of them now, for restaurants, contractors, gyms, and local shops around town. After enough of those, a pattern jumped out at me. My clients weren't losing business because their website looked bad. They were losing it to the gaps: the call that came in while they were under a sink, the text that sat for three hours, the customer who booked, forgot, and never showed.
So I started building things to close those gaps. Right now I've got 30-plus AI agents running across six live setups, doing the unglamorous work — answering calls, texting people back, chasing leads, booking jobs. None of it is a slideshow demo. It runs all day, every day, whether anyone's looking or not.
When there's no client work in front of me, I'm building my own stuff. Apps, little tools, the occasional passion project I get a bit carried away with. A lot of it is open-source, and I put it out in public because I like the work and because it's the most honest proof I can give you that I know how to build. Your project stays yours, though. I don't put client work on display.
The way I work is simple: you talk to me. The person who builds your system is the same person who sets it up, runs it, and picks up when you call. No account managers, no handoffs, no agency in the middle taking a cut and slowing everything down.